I work hard, and I’ve got a lot of capacity, but I get excited and try all sorts of things. If I were a baseball player, I’d be the guy swinging at wild pitches. If I were a dog in a YouTube video, I’d be the pomeranian trying to screw the great dane.

The first few times I was warned of the dangers of coordinated, multi-person snatch-and-grab attacks by teams of predatory motorcyclists, I assumed the Vietnamese person telling me was simply crazy. A fringe lunatic in an otherwise reasonable society. Not so.

I'm suddenly the guy who wears goggles. Like, every single day I wear goggles. Apparently goggles are one of the undeniable parts of me that survived the windburn of exiting my real life. I feel like this detail is important. Goggles make me feel ready for anything.

All my eggs were in two baskets on this trip: my electronics in my backpack, my clothes in the now-saturated bag of liquid fish.

Recent Trips

So far in 2012 it's been New York, Los Angeles, India, and the Philippines. And soon to be lowering property values near you...

I work hard, and I’ve got a lot of capacity, but I get excited and try all sorts of things. If I were a baseball player, I’d be the guy swinging at wild pitches. If I were a dog in a YouTube video, I’d be the pomeranian trying to screw the great dane.

The first few times I was warned of the dangers of coordinated, multi-person snatch-and-grab attacks by teams of predatory motorcyclists, I assumed the Vietnamese person telling me was simply crazy. A fringe lunatic in an otherwise reasonable society. Not so.

I'm suddenly the guy who wears goggles. Like, every single day I wear goggles. Apparently goggles are one of the undeniable parts of me that survived the windburn of exiting my real life. I feel like this detail is important. Goggles make me feel ready for anything.

About Me

I’m Jesse – longtime coder, writer, traveler, troublemaker. I like to look for problems and think my way around them, both in technology and life in general. I was 22 when I first escaped a small-town office, fled to the big city, and started seeing what I could get away with in terms of increased freedom, earnings, and adventure.

It was the most consequential choice I’ve ever made.

I started this website and the SoftWhereInTheHell podcast as a place to share ideas and to get ideas. I write code for a living, but I don’t want anything here to be exclusively for coders. It’s about business, it’s about monkey business, and it’s about how to make yourself a better and happier monkey.

Recent Blog Posts

I work hard, and I’ve got a lot of capacity, but I get excited and try all sorts of things. If I were a baseball player, I’d be the guy swinging at wild pitches. If I were a dog in a YouTube video, I’d be the pomeranian trying to screw the great dane.

The first few times I was warned of the dangers of coordinated, multi-person snatch-and-grab attacks by teams of predatory motorcyclists, I assumed the Vietnamese person telling me was simply crazy. A fringe lunatic in an otherwise reasonable society. Not so.

I'm suddenly the guy who wears goggles. Like, every single day I wear goggles. Apparently goggles are one of the undeniable parts of me that survived the windburn of exiting my real life. I feel like this detail is important. Goggles make me feel ready for anything.